McConnell's - Sprinkle Cake

Sprinkle Cake - Ice Cream made with Sheet Cake Pieces, Frosting & Rainbow Sprinkles

The fourth pint of my recent McConnell's shipment is called Sprinkle Cake.  This is a bit of a change from McConnnell's.  They are an old brand which specializes in classic flavors.  I don't immediately associate them with sugary cake mix-ins and rainbow sprinkles.  Let's check it out.


Removing the lid and the extra paper wrap (McConnell's has an extra paper seal between the lid and the ice cream now) shows that the base ice cream is a bright white color and many of the brightly colored sprinkles can be seen right away as well.  In the first spoonful, I taste the flavor of white cake.  It is sweet, but not overly so.  Then I encountered some of the cake pieces.  I spoke too soon about the 'white' cake.  These pieces are rainbow colored as well, but it just coloring.  This is definitely a white cake flavor and not a yellow cake flavor.  Yellow cake has a different flavor because of the egg yolks.  The cake pieces are pretty small so it keeps the ice cream looking very white.  Every so often, I will run into a bit of frosting.  The frosting is not as sweet as some frosting mix-ins are.  It has a more buttery texture to it.  This works really well blending into the ice cream and complements the cake pieces quite well.  The rainbow sprinkles provide quite a bit of color, but it is the delicious cake flavor which dominates here.

This is an excellent sheet-cake themed ice cream flavor.  It looks gorgeous.  McConnell's did a great job here.  It tastes like a really good cake and it is not too sweet -- many cake-flavored ice creams make the mistake of being too sugary sweet.  This would be the perfect ice cream for someone's birthday.